Metric of the Month: Percent Resolved Level 1 Capable

Jeff Rumburg looks at percent resolved level 1 capable, a desktop support metric that provides insight into total cost of ownership for service and support.
Date Published February 14, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Use Custom Metrics for Insights into Your ITSM Data

Step outside your comfort zone of stock reporting to ask and answer unique questions of your ITSM data. It will likely pay off huge dividends.
Date Published February 6, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management for 2017

These thought leaders are practitioners and consultants in technical support and service management who share insights with the community.
Date Published January 19, 2018 - Last Updated January 23, 2019

Metric of the Month: Service Desk Balanced Scorecard

A handful of critical metrics can be combined to create a single, overall measure of service desk performance.
Date Published January 17, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Dashboards 101

Today’s service management tools make it easy to publish dashboards showing the current state of IT service and support. But the tendency is to overdo things a bit…
Date Published December 19, 2017 - Last Updated December 18, 2017

Pick the Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management for 2017

Who has made an impact on the technical support industry? Help us put together the list of HDI’s Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management.
Date Published December 7, 2017 - Last Updated December 12, 2017

Metric of the Month: First Level Resolution Rate

First level resolution (FLR) is a measure of a service desk’s ability to resolve tickets at Level 1, without having to escalate the ticket to Level 2 or Level 3.
Date Published November 16, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Pursuit of Award-Winning Service Improvement: A Case Study from Oath

Learn how one organization changed the paradigm of conventional IT and put people first instead of ticket metrics to improve service delivery and customer satisfaction.
Date Published November 1, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Pursuit of Award-Winning Service Improvement: A Case Study from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Learn how one service desk improved first call resolution, implemented self-service password reset, and formalized a continuous improvement process.
Date Published October 31, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

Metric of the Month: Desktop Support Cost per Ticket

Jeff Rumburg continues his series on KPIs for service and support with a look at desktop support cost per ticket.
Date Published October 18, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017